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The article with the compiled list is up here:
Link
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ATi Radeon x800GTO 256MB PCI-E
Catalyst 5.12 - 5.13 - OmegaDrivers
No prob for now...

My 7500LE 64MB as got some trouble with the Beta of WB5, I will check up with the lastest to see but I think it's to old to support PerPixel...
(Edit: Hum ya, saw it at the compiled page...)

Hum pictoratus,
Can you sort the table ?
IE: put cards by Chip brand (ATi, nVIDIA) and by oldness?
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ATI Radeon 9550 Pro 256mb w/ driver version: 6.14.10.6517 (Basic drivers only)


Everything seems to work fine here.

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ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9200 SERIES with the latest drivers updates and all is well
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ATI Radeon 9250 256MB PCI with Catalyst 5.13, no per-pixel blending at 1600x1200 resolution. Per-pixel does work with Catalyst 4.12 drivers, however.
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ATi Mobility Radeon X700 64bit-64MB


No major issue. One minor issue: MDI buttons can not be skinned. I think this isn't an issue caused by graphics card or driver.

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Nvidia 6800GS, using latest drivers. When I try to load a skin, I see the "loading" box in the new skin, but then all my windows, task bar, start button, etc. change to the unskinned "windows 95" look. I'm running Windows Media Center 2005 on a dual core Pentium D.
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ATI X800XT-PE with Catalyst 6.1 on a very fresh install of XP SP2 (p4-3.2Ghz, 1GB RAM).  WB5 works fine but slows my desktop way down.  Happens with all skins that come stock.  Tried WB v5.00.01 and b.011.  I used Passmark Performance Test 6.0 to come up with differences:


Benchmark    no WB    WB5
----------- -------- -------

2D Lines     118.76    7.25
2D Rects      89.54   54.48
2D Shapes      7.90    3.46
2D Fnts/Txt  168.04   71.34
3DWin Simp  2014.39    9.39
3DWin Med    350.54   17.92 
3DFullScr     32.41   32.41


I don't know what all the number mean precisely, but I can replicate them on demand.  In fact, no tweaking I've tried within WB seems to make more than 5% difference.

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Since I didn't see it listed.....
Sony VAIO Laptop, Ati Mobility Radeon X600 256mb (128mb dedicated & 128 mb shared) worked on all releases so far. Lateset OEM drivers and bios upgrade.
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Mjollnir32: The slow 3dWin results is due to a problem on ATI boards when a windowed D3D app uses antialiasing and there is 1 or more pixels of perpixel on screen.  This can be reproduced with a simple DX gadget on screen (on a multi monitor system you can even see the change as you move the window in & out of the screen the test is running on).

We will be reporting this to ATI to see if they can fix it in future drivers.

I can reproduce those 2D slowdowns and I suspect the slowdown is caused by the progress bar updating.  I will post here with more information when I get it.

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Mjollnir32: It seems the slowdown in the 2D tests is also caused by having per pixel under the test window.

Does your desktop feel slow in use, or is it just these test results that makes you think its slow?

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It definitely feels slow to use.  Before I reinstalled XP and ATI drivers (had to anyway), it was getting to point that I would shutdown ObjectDock and WB in order to get things done.  Benchmarks are meaningless to me if you don't see the difference.


I will try turning off the perpixel or find some older skins to use in the meantime.  Thanks for the heads-up.

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ATI Radeon 9600 SE, 128 MB
Catalyst version: 06.1
Driver version: 8.205.0.0
Driver Date: 04-Jan-06

No problems
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ATI Radeon 9800 128MB - works fine nomatter what driver I have used. Just updated a couple of days ago.
nVidia Geforce Go 6400 - works fine as well. Pretty recent drivers.
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I have the dreaded GeForce 6200, latest drivers, tried overclocking still very slow. Went and got a GeForce6600, same problems. Finally uninstalled WB 5.0 and performance got much better (still not as fast as should be).
Used PC pitstop, got like 20-30mp/s with WB and object dock, 104.6 without.
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Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 - Problems with transparency on start menu. The First time the start menu is opened it keeps whatever is in the transparent area. So, if the background changes or another windows is behind the start menu when it is opened a second time, then instead of showing transparent area properly it shows the original contents from the first time opened.


Otherwise seems to be ok. Including transparency on explorer windows and taskbar.


Toshiba Protege M200 - Tablet. Latest drivers published by Toshiba - so not as new as what is available on Nvidia - except GeForce FX Go5200 drivers are not available directly from nvidia - without hacking away that is.

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WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have 2 monitors.

(ViewSonic 17GS-2) 1 is attached to RADEON 9600 SERIES
(Dell P780) 2 is attached to RADEON 9600 SERIES - Secondary

runnin ATI CATALYST
Version1.2.2084.76

Hope that helps you/us all out!!

peas
cityboy
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WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY*

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to ALL-IN-WONDER 9200 SERIES

Running latest ATI Catalyst 6.2 Drivers. The monitor in question is a Xerox XL-795D. I usually don't have any trouble with the skins, but when trying to see Solaire-Dark, I was getting the XP-style buttons at the top.

Since I just updated my drivers yesterday, do I need to do a fresh re-install of WP5? I just updated it through SDC, and am not sure what to do next ... if anything. Your assistance would be great! (Sorry for asking in this thread.)

-- Mike
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Using the latest Catalyst drivers 6.2 with ATI Radeon 9550 256mb on a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 Mobo. WB5 latest version works well in all departments but sometimes my system seems to run more slowly when using per pixel skins...redrawing, etc. CPU usage (P4 2.8E) tends to fluctuate more when using per pixel skins, as does RAM (DDR400 1.5 gig)....especially when using Firefox for some reason.
possibly more information than requested but I figured it all tied in with WB5 usage.

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V/915V) 1 is attached to RADEON 9550

Wblind.dll 2006/02/10 19:33:34
Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/05 12:58:22
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/05 18:42:52
Wbload.exe 2006/01/19 16:19:18
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
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Sapphire 9200 Atlantis, ATI 128 mb .... no problems with
ATI Catalyst 4.1, ATI Catalyst 6 don't work
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Radeon x700series (Pro in my case)

latest Cat drivers = no problems.